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On Ith August, 1944, we issued a Statement dra winą attention to the ominous developments in the setting up by the Soviet Government of a so-calicd National ('ouncil of Liberation to take over withoul any valid authority or legał mandaty the govemment and admjnistration of Poland.

That Statement was sent to each Mętu ber of rhe Housc of Commons with a reąuest that he should State whether or not he was prepared to stand by Britains Pledge to Poland. Over one third of the House replied to ot acknowledged the communi-cation and the anxiety felt by the great majority regarding the futurę fate of Poland was madę abun-dantly elear. A few members stated honestl) their belief that there were no groundS whatever for suggesting or belięving that Śoviet Russia had any evil designs on het Ally—Poland.

Alas! Our misgivings and fears have proved ordy too well founded. Since that datę Soviet Korces have entered Poland and their agents, the Lublin Committee, have, with the aid of the Soviet Seciet Police and Armed Forces, taken violent measures, as confirmed in their own offirial statement of 17th January, 1945, “to extirpate“ what they are pleased to clescribe as “the t rai tors. ban-dits, incorrigible malefactors and brawlers of the NationnJist Armed Forces and the Home Army— murderers stained with fratemal blood, instigators of fratricidal strife.” This callous and brutal treat-inent of the gallant Polisłi Underground Anny to which otticial status as "Belligerent Forces'’ was given by the Govemments of the U.S.A. and Great

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